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The Independent

Review: Once Upon a Time At The Adelphi, Playhouse, Liverpool

Review: Ten Tiny Toes, Everyman, Liverpool

Financial Times

The Music Man, Chichester Festival Theatre
By the end of the show the audience was blowing up the kind of storm that could send this half-remembered Broadway hit all the way to the West End, writes Antony Thorncroft

The Times UK

Connie Fisher: is there life after Maria?
Demanding diva or true pro? What next for the telesales girl thrust into the limelight by a television competition?

High School Musical, Apollo, Hammersmith
Anybody hoping to enjoy this stage version of Disney’s film should come wearing a cheerleader’s top

The Music Man, Chichester Festival
The Music Man is a show that's a lot more enjoyable than critical rigour says it should be

In My Name, Trafalgar Studios, London
The widespread faithlessness of British society is set against the burning certainties of religious fundamentalism

The Guardian

What on earth would Miss Skinner think?
Lyn Gardner fears that exam culture has taken all the fun out of drama at school

Almost arrested for dramatic disturbance
Mark Ravenhill: Theatre at a football match is the climax of a conference of young European playwrights

Mela, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Angela is eight months pregnant and stranded several hundred feet from the ground. Above her, a couple of kids attempt to spit on her head. Below her, an elderly Polish refugee...

New Connections, National, London
Over the past 13 years, the Connections season at the National has seen 85 new plays commissioned and produced, making it one of the most productive generators of new writing in the country. ...

Daily Telegraph

Catherine Tate: after the Doctor, the West End
Now that her spell as Doctor Who's assistant has come to a dramatic conclusion, Catherine Tate talks to Jasper Rees about her return to the stage - and her ambition to play one of Shakespeare's great comic heroines.

Why high school rules
As the stage version of High School Musical opens in London, Lionel Shriver wonders why filmmakers - and viewers - love going back to the classroom.

The kids are quite right, it's a scream
Charles Spencer reviews High School Musical at the Hammersmith Apollo.

On the road: Once Upon a Time and the Chester Mystery Play
Dominic Cavendish reviews shows from around the country.

Whatsonstage.com

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Review: High School Musical